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Title: Puma on loose in Margate?
Post by: Mark on September 27, 2008, 09:46:32 AM
We had an email from our lost & found saying there is a missing cat out of our area in Palm Bay, Margate. The owner is worried as there are reports of a Puma-like creature in the area  :scared:
Title: Re: Puma on loose in Margate?
Post by: Liz on September 27, 2008, 16:23:47 PM
Its not the Clan Cats Puma he is currently playing with mouse in the garden! :naughty:
Title: Re: Puma on loose in Margate?
Post by: MrsR on September 27, 2008, 16:52:13 PM
Puma  :shify:
Title: Re: Puma on loose in Margate?
Post by: hOrZa on September 27, 2008, 17:12:14 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2007/03/05/big_cats_feature.shtml



recently updated :)


http://www.thanetextra.co.uk/news/default.asp?article_id=45968
Title: Re: Puma on loose in Margate?
Post by: alisonandarchie on September 27, 2008, 20:20:22 PM
Wow.

My sister saw the fen 'tiger' one night in Cambridgeshire.  She finds it hard to believe anything like this until an enormous cat with a massive tail strolled in front of her car :scared: She though it was a panther.
Title: Re: Puma on loose in Margate?
Post by: Liz on September 28, 2008, 19:31:06 PM
The Clan cats Panther is also still at home currently playing laser pen!

We have a big vat here to in the woods several neighbours have seen it and I did see tracks in the snow! :shocked:
Title: Re: Puma on loose in Margate?
Post by: alisonandarchie on September 28, 2008, 19:35:22 PM
 :scared:
Title: Re: Puma on loose in Margate?
Post by: JackSpratt on September 28, 2008, 21:19:47 PM
That is so cool....not for the smaller wildlife, obviously! :)
Title: Re: Puma on loose in Margate?
Post by: Catbird on September 29, 2008, 08:16:31 AM
Yep.  We have one too.  It's called The Beast of Bluebell Hill. Curiously, it only ever seems to be spotted by people returning from nights out early in the morning (hmmmm -  :Crazy: ?).  Usually it's described as being black and about the size of a labrador (so, it's a black labrador then?).  I read somewhere that Kent is supposed to have a breeding colony of various big cats happily cross-breeding with each other.  Personally, I file this sort of thing (eg crop circles) under "loony crap that the papers endorse when short on stories".  We have a very large stray dog (looks like a greyhound/borzoi cross) who has been in the area for a couple of years.  He can't be caught because he is too wily and ranges right across the Rochester area, only at night or in the early morning.  I very occasionally see him (3 or 4 times a year) as I leave for work and walk a mile and half to Rochester at about 5am.  I think he may well be taking cats, as a couple have disappeared recently - not sure what can be done about him as he ranges over such a wide area.  I suppose his luck will have to run out at some point.

C.